Re: Plan for tomorrows (20070531) FESCO meeting

From: Jesse Keating <jkeating redhat com>

To: fedora-devel-list redhat com

Subject: Re: Plan for tomorrows (20070531) FESCO meeting

Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 15:13:34 -0400

On Wednesday 30 May 2007 14:29:00 Gerry Reno wrote:
> I do not know where things stand with regard to being able to perform
> an upgrade installation from FC6 to FC7 but for me this is very very
> important. I have a lot of FC6 servers where I have configured
> literally over a hundred packages. The only way that I would be able to
> migrate these servers to FC7 is by a yum (or other tool) upgrade path.
> A complete reinstall is out of the question. And if that is necessary
> my servers will be stuck on FC6 forever. Also I have other servers that
> I want to migrate to new 64-bit architecture from 32-bit. I have not
> found a documented, automated way in which I can do this so that all the
> 32-bit packages are replaced with their 64-bit counterparts. These are
> some things that I would like to see discussed.
Is this really FESCO material though? Isn't this just more general usage
questions? (honestly these systems seem more suited for a platform with less
frequent releases, like RHEL or CentOS).
Upgrading with yum is mostly OK, there are a few gotchas regarding some
changes that have gone into the kernel.
Upgrading from i386 to x86_64 is going to be a MUCH more difficult task.
I'm jut not sure what you're looking for out of FESCO on this.
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Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora